Your wife will have a blue book and you can have a yellow book once you own a house. I did find a couple of advantages to owning a yellow book, but I can't remember exactly what they were now, or what I used it for since it was a few years since I had one. I just remember it came in handy a couple of times.

My brain is like an Internet browser; 12 tabs are open and 5 of them are not responding, there's a GIF playing in an endless loop,... and where is that annoying music coming from?

Blue Books can be used to verify address as it has your name on it. Yellow Book requires a letter from Immigration (500 Baht) to prove address. This is my understanding. Foreigners can get a Blue Book but it is a separate and lengthy procedure.

I wouldn't have to manage my anger if people could learn to mange their stupidity!

SunandFun wrote:Blue Books can be used to verify address as it has your name on it. Yellow Book requires a letter from Immigration (500 Baht) to prove address. This is my understanding. Foreigners can get a Blue Book but it is a separate and lengthy procedure.

I'm not sure this is correct.

A felang can not get a blue book for his property only a yellow. It's quite complicated and needs a trip to BKK to have your passport verified by your embassy then I believe the local tassiabaan will issue. I have 2 yellow books in the previous owners name and have to show these as proof of address when buying vehicles, driving licences etc

One day I'll get round to getting my own, but my passport is about to fun out so I was waiting for my new one.

The yellow book is only a registration of address for a farang. You don't have to own the house and this certainly is not proof of ownership as some people think.It does require a trip to BKK to have your passport verified but once done, the procedure is quite straightforward. The Tessabahn in HH usually issue it within 2 weeks. It does have some advantages.

A foreigner can only be on a blue book if he/she has a Permanent Residency Certificate.

Well, I have a Blue Book. I own a house (but not the land, obviously) and it's possible my passport or someone with a notarised copy of my passport went to somewhere in Hua Hin or Bangkok to register me. I'm not a permanent resident. My wife is British and we're far from retirement. Go figure.